Igor Tulchinsky is founder and CEO of WorldQuant LLC, a global private investment management complex established in 2007.

Before that, he spent 12 years as a statistical arbitrage portfolio manager at Millennium Management LLC.

Tulchinsky was also a venture capitalist, scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, video game programmer and author.

He recently founded WorldQuant University, which will offer the world's first free online accredited master's degree in quantitative finance, as well as WorldQuant Ventures, an angel investment firm focused on technology and data companies.

Tulchinsky also established the WorldQuant Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on making a positive impact through targeted donations worldwide.

He holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Texas, completed in a record nine months, and an M.B.A. in finance and entrepreneurship from the Wharton School.

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